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Bill Barton
ParticipantThe BAA Memoirs are available on SAO ADS.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibstem%3AMmBAA&sort=date%20asc%2C%20bibcode%20asc&p_=0
Unfortunately the person doing the scanning doesn’t seem to have worked out the pagination and sometimes the content doesn’t match the title!
Bill Barton,
Deputy Director, Historical Section.Bill Barton
ParticipantLarger than Mount Everest, apparently?
Bill Barton
ParticipantSurely the monkey is using lorgnettes (handheld spectacles)?
Bill Barton
ParticipantCallum,
Thanks for the tip about using quotation marks, I’ll have to try it out.
Bill Barton
ParticipantThere was a printed index issued at our centenary in 1990. It covered volumes 51 to 100.
An index to volumes 1 to 50 was issued (in 1963!), but the print run was very short.
Bill Barton
ParticipantNew refined prediction for reentry is 21 February 2024 16:31 UTC ± 5 hours.
Bill Barton
ParticipantThe BAA Memoir can be found at the following web address
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1898MmBAA…6….1.
Bill Barton
ParticipantThis image shows Sir Robert Ball Lecturing aboard the s.s. Norse King.
I’d guess the gentleman on the extreme left is E W Maunder, and then Mrs Maunder before Dr A A Common. I cannot identify anyone else as their faces are not so well known.
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Bill Barton
ParticipantI’d be interested in the full explanation of this too, but in the meantime I’d like to make two points
1, In the past meeting attendance was limited to bona fide BAA members, but members of affiliated societies could also attend. This may no longer be the case with live streaming. This also applied to other BAA membership benefits (e.g. advice from Section Directors).
2, One of my local astronomical societies subscribes to several astronomy magazines and it is a very real benefit of membership to be able to read current magazines purely for the much cheaper price of membership. How local societies will still be able to obtain the JBAA & Handbook is, currently, not obvious.Bill Barton
ParticipantAn extra day of rail strikes has just been announced for Friday, September 1.
Bill Barton
ParticipantAnnoyingly September 2 has been announced as a strike day on the railways.
Bill Barton
ParticipantFull contact has been re-established!
Bill Barton
ParticipantJohn,
I’m afraid not. Our venue was not fitted for streaming (or recording) and only summaries will appear in the Section News and the Journal.
Bill Barton,
Deputy Director.Bill Barton
ParticipantFound in the Daily Star Newspaper of a few days ago.
And now this!
Bill Barton
ParticipantMairan (co-longitude 44 degrees (sunrise)) is located in the Jura Mountains between Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Imbrium to the east. Page 36 of our Handbook will tell you when it becomes visible (at sunrise) and invisible (at sunset). Mairan has a similar latitude to the prominent crater Plato, but is 34 degrees east of it. Mairan has a similar longitude to Aristarchus but is 18 degrees north of it.
Bill Barton
ParticipantStars loose mass processing simple elements into more complex ones. Our Sun loses about 4 million tonnes of mass per second doing this. Multiply by the number of stars in the universe….
Bill Barton
ParticipantEdwin Hubble found 140 nebulous objects in the vicinity of M31 that were provisionally identified as globular clusters, his paper on the subject was published in the Astrophysical Journal, vol. 76 (1932), p.44-69. It can be found in SAO ADS. I would post a link, but this forum truncates the web address making it unreachable.
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Bill Barton
ParticipantI came up with many contributions to ‘The Astronomer’ for R A Mackenzie for 1969-1970.
Bill Barton
ParticipantJames,
I can’t answer for Day, Falworth, or Mackenzie, but Valdemar Axel Firsoff died in 1981 and his obituary appeared in JBAA vol.92 (1982), no.3, p.139.
RJ Hebbs, could this be Ron Hebbs who ran an astronomical supply company? He traded under the name ‘Bretmain’ from Felixstowe, in Suffolk. He advertised in our journal (eg vol.93 (1982), no.1, p.iii) and in an early edition of the FAS News (https://www.fedastro.org.uk/newsletter/FASnewsolder/FAS_news02.pdf), but this was from a different later address. I seem to remember he stopped trading in the mid to late nineteen-eighties.
I see that this magazine can be found in ‘Google Books’ (https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Solar_System_Today.html?id=hiDyAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y) and the British Library also seem to have it (https://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do;jsessionid=A85336C646EDB4787190BFD9DC1F1DE2?fn=search&ct=search&initialSearch=true&mode=Basic&tab=local_tab&indx=1&dum=true&srt=rank&vid=BLVU1&frbg=&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=Solar+system+today&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl%28488279563UI0%29=any&vl%28488279563UI0%29=title&vl%28488279563UI0%29=any). In both cases there are multiple references to Hebbs trading address, so I guess I’m right. A search on freeBMD reveals only one Ronald J Hebbs birth in the twentieth century. This was in 1945, so he would be in his late seventies by now, so maybe he is still alive?
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